Whip-socket



(Ng Model.)

E. W. SCOTT.

WHIP SOCKET.

No.V 287,872.

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v UNITED STATES EEAsTUs WILLEE sCOTT, OE WARECAN, CONNECTICUT.

WHIP-SOCKET.v

SPECIFICATION forming .Tu all whom, it mar/ i] concern,.-

Be it known that I, ERAsTUs WILLER SCOTT, of Wauregan, in the county of Windham, of the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the same to be described'in the Vfollowing specication and represented in'the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side eleva'- tion, Fig. v3 a front elevation, Fig. 4 a rear view, and Fig. 5 a vertical and longitudinal section, of a whip-socket embodying Iny inven-V, tion, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

The body of this whip socket is castor founded of Inetal in two separate pieces, A and B, formed as represented, each of which at top isprovided with two hooks, a a, those-of one being to Vhook upon and engage with those of the other, such hooks being arrangedas shown. At their lower ends the two parts A and B are connected by a rivet, C, going through them.v The socket tapers both upward and downward from its middle, and has projecting into it from its rearmost part, A, an arch or bow, D,which, arranged as shown, serves with the front part, B, to bear against and support a whip-handle when in the socket. The rear part, A, has projecting from 'it two clasps-E E, for connecting it to the dasher of a buggy or wheel-carriage, such clasps being of the kind usually employed Furthermore, the rear portion, A, has a perforated proj ection,G,

`extending upward from it, to which a hooked spring, H, formed as represented, is applied, the lower part of such spring being secured to the part A by the upper clasp, E, and the rivet or screw a, which secures such clasp to the said tially as represented.

PATENT f OFFICE.

part of Letters 'Patent No.287,872, dated November 6, 1883. .Application filed August 27,1883. (No model.)v A

part A, and the fastening rivet or screw going through them and the spring, vin manner as 4C shown in Fig. 5. This spring is designed to serve with the dasher as a rein-holder when the driving-reins of the vehicle are down or inserted between such spring and dasher.

To render each of the parts A and B of the 45 bodykslight in weight, I' usually make it curved on its opposite edges, and perforated with holes, as represented.

I claiml. The whip-socket body, composed of two 5o parts or pieces, A B, having connection-hooks a, as described, at their upper ends, and fasti ened together at their lower parts by a rivet, I C, as set forth.

2., The whip-socket body, composed of the 55 two parts or pieces A B, hooked together at their upper ends, and connected at their lower parts by a rivet, and having extended from the rear part, A, into the whip-receiving chamber or space a bowr or arch, D, all being substan- 6o 3. The whip-socket provided at top with the perforated projection, and with the rein-holder or hooked spring adapted to such projection, and xed to the rearlportion of the whip -socket 6 5 body, as set forth.

4. The whip-socket provided with the fastening-clasps, and at top with the perforated projection, and also with the rein-holder'or hooked spring adapted to such projection, and 7o the upper of such clasps, substantially as set forth. Y r

` ERASTUS VILLER SCOTT. Witnesses:

ARTHUR G. BILL, GEO. C. KEACH. 

